North Carolina’s highest court will decide whether the Richmond County school board can renew its decade-old legal judgment of $272,300 against state government.
The court heard oral arguments Oct. 28 in the dispute between the City of Raleigh and developers who challenged the water and sewer impact fees charged between 2016 and 2018.
Three Oct. 17 decisions from the North Carolina Supreme Court delivered wins for those who challenge actions from state government's unaccountable employees.
The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld Friday a lower court’s decision favoring the North Carolina Farm Bureau in a legal battle with state environmental regulators. The high court split, 5-2, in determining that three provisions in the state’s general animal-waste permits should have been subjected to the state’s rulemaking process.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has used the case of a fired Winston-Salem State University professor to rule that state courts will not defer to state agencies’ interpretations of their own rules and regulations.
A unanimous federal Appeals Court panel has rejected a North Carolina law that creates a felony crime for felons who vote in state elections. The decision Friday upholds a trial judge’s 2024 decision in the case.
The North Carolina Supreme Court will decide in the months ahead whether law enforcement officers who smell cannabis have probable cause to search vehicles without warrants in this state. In a series of cases Tuesday, defendants urged the high court to answer no.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has determined that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools must contribute to a state retirement fund for school police. The court agreed unanimously. Meanwhile, the five Republican justices used the case to address the issue of "legislative history."
A three-judge federal Appeals Court panel questioned Friday why North Carolina state government lawyers challenged a lower court’s injunction in a case dealing with felon voting. The April 2024 injunction blocked state prosecutors from enforcing a law that created a Class I felony for convicted felons who vote in North Carolina elections without having their rights restored.
A case pitting North Carolina's environmental regulators against the Farm Bureau could have far-reaching impacts.
The North Carolina Supreme Court must decide whether three challenged conditions in state animal waste permits are state government rules. If so, those conditions would be thrown out because they didn’t go through the state’s rulemaking process.
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